Weekly Animals Gallery

The two young lion cubs and their mother Layla lie in an enclosure at the zoo in Dresden, Germany. The lion cubs have shown themselves to visitors for the first time five weeks after their birth.

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Freediver Leina Sato plays with a pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of Hawaii, over the years she has built up such an understanding with the intelligent marine mammals that they now even play games together, chasing and catching leaves.

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A teju sits in the grass during a pet fair Dresden, Germany.

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Dalila, a Jaguar, lies on a tree at the NEX Sanctuary for felines in Corumba, north of Brasilia, Brazil. NEX (No Extinction), a non-governmental organization created to defend and preserve the life of endangered wild felines, currently houses some 26 big cats, most coming from the Amazon.

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A dog relaxes on a heap of coal at the Kankaria Railway Yard in Ahmedabad.

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A rare white Indian tiger cub sits at the feet of its mother Surya Bara at a zoo in the city of Liberec, Czech Republic.

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A 12-foot–long male King Cobra checks the photographer before being rescued by a team of snake experts in Digboi, India.

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A Harris Hawk, formerly known as the Bay-winged Hawk or Dusky Hawk, a medium-large bird of prey, lands on a falconer’s glove during a show in a countryside near Warsaw, Poland.

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Denali, a male gray wolf, walks between trees at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska. The 6-year-old wolf is one of two candidates for zoo “president” in a fundraiser that matches the timing of the U.S. presidential race. He’s running against Ahpun, a polar bear, and ballots are $1.

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A butterfly is seen at the Hunan Forest Botanical Garden in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. Some 20,000 butterlies and 20 categories of flowers are displayed at the garden during a ”Flowers Butterfly” show.

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A European Brown Bear cools off at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo by submerging its head it its pool then blow bubbles in Bedfordshire, England.

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A flock of Siberian white cranes stand near a motorized hang glider on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin later flew in the hang glider alongside the cranes as part of a program devised by environmentalists to lead the endangered cranes, which were raised in captivity, on their migration to Asia.

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A Green Macaw flies in the mountains near Manzanillo Beach, east of San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Katharina, an Amur tiger, and her three new cubs recline in the shade at the Bronx Zoo Tiger Mountain exhibit in New York.